Barista Map Coffee Roasters

The everyday dark milk blend from Barista Map: 50% washed Colombian Caturra and Castillo from Nariño, 50% natural Brazilian Mundo Novo from Sul de Minas.

Shin Fukayama's milk blend: half honey-processed Castillo from Nariño, half carbonic-maceration natural Gesha from Bench Maji, built to keep its strawberry and raspberry fruit through milk.

Strawberry, raspberry, chocolate

A natural Geisha from Las Margaritas, one of Café Granja La Esperanza's farms in Valle del Cauca, where Andean slopes at 1,400 to 2,000 m, a warm, humid climate and big day-night swings suit coffee; the department also holds the port of Buenaventura that ships much of central Colombia's coffee.

A thermal-shock natural Pacamara from Finca Zaraza in Colombia, one of the top lots on Barista Map's menu, roasted on the shop's Stronghold.

From Café Granja La Esperanza, known as the first producer to plant Geisha in Colombia; the family business began in 1945 when Juan Antonio Herrera and his wife grew Bourbon and Caturra on the Potosí farm, later adding La Esperanza in Trujillo. Processed with their own low-water Hybrid Wash method.

A black-honey lot from Leoncio at the Herbazu micromill in Costa Rica.

Eighth place (87.02 points) in the Washed & Honey category of the 2025 El Salvador Cup of Excellence, from Jaime Pineda's El Durazno farm in La Palma, Chalatenango.

Blackcurrant, red apple, cherry

La Reforma was founded in 1892 when Colombian-born Rafael Alvarez Lalinde planted the slopes of the Santa Ana volcano; now run by the fifth generation, it placed third in the 2011 Cup of Excellence with a Bourbon before the 2012 rust epidemic.

Cranberry, apricot, fig

From Bench Maji in south-western Ethiopia, home of the Gori Gesha forest where the Gesha variety is said to originate. Exporter Trabocca was drawn by the region's forests and built a washing station there before setting up the Karmachi farm in 2017.

Blackberry, raisin, rum

The natural lot from the popular Konga cooperative: floral and exotic in contrast to the washed Konga, but still remarkably elegant.

Floral, blueberry, black tea

A washed Yirgacheffe from the Konga cooperative, grown in fertile black soil among the rivers and forests around Lake Abaya and finished in the area's traditional washed-and-sun-dried style.

Floral, white wine, grapefruit

The natural-process twin of Barista Map's El Injerto Pacamara, from the Huehuetenango farm that won the 2008 Guatemala Cup of Excellence: grape, blackcurrant and pineapple.

Grape, blackcurrant, pineapple

El Injerto, founded by Jesús Aguirre in 1874 and growing coffee since 1900, placed third on its Cup of Excellence debut in 2002 and won in 2008 with a then-record $80.20/lb. The washed Pacamara shows blackcurrant, orange and tropical fruit.

Blackcurrant, orange, tropical fruit

An anaerobic natural from Padmana in Kamojang, West Java.

From the Karindundu factory between Mount Kenya and the Aberdares, used by 520 producers from five villages who also grow tea, maize and bananas. Hand-picked cherries are pulped, washed with water pumped from the Tagati River and dried at the factory.

White grapefruit, mandarin, apricot

A rare Liberica from the My Liberica farm in Johor, a specialist in the species, made with Project Origin, the green-coffee project founded by World Barista Champion Saša Šestić. Anaerobic fermentation and natural drying push it far from the usual Liberica image: raspberry, pineapple, pomegranate, fig and ruby grapefruit over caramel and dark chocolate, with a papaya-like tropical depth.

Raspberry, pineapple, pomegranate, fig, caramel, dark chocolate

A carbonic-maceration natural Geisha from El Paraíso in Mozonte, Nueva Segovia (not the Colombian Finca El Paraíso), part of a Project Origin collaboration bringing experimental processing to Nicaraguan highland coffee. Cherries ferment in sealed tanks flushed with CO2 before drying.

Lemonade, pineapple, passion fruit

Esmeralda sells its Geisha under two brands: "Esmeralda Special" for auction lots over 90 points, and "Private Collection", a blend of aromatic microlots from Jaramillo, Quiel, Cañas Verdes and El Velo at 1,600 to 1,800 m that scored 87 to 90. Consistent Geisha quality at a gentler price: jasmine florals and orange.

Floral, jasmine, orange